Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1887-04-27
ADDITIONAL NEWS.

| SUPERINTENDENT ROBERTSON, of the
Chicago agency, was asked as to the
truth of the statement that detectives were
shadowing Mr.. Patrick Egan, ex-presi-
dent of the National League. "It is al
bosh as far as We are concerned" said he.
| "Some years ago." he continued, 1--WE
| did some work for the Englsh government
on this Land League business, but at pres.
| enf, l assure you, we have moth ng to do
with or for Downing street, or with news
| papers or other detectives, or Irish or Brit
ish governm entail matters.
The Journals Pierre, Dakota. special
says: ! have just returned from the Win
| nebago and Crow Greek reservations and
| the greatest excitement exists there. The
Idians, covered with war paint aad armed
with Winchesters, were met on the road
following up the troops. News that the
soldiers would drive of the settlers fro In
the land is now i'll every Indian tepse.
Scout and Hall Breed Gillian fear trouble
with the Sioux who are quietly leaving the
big reservation.
ATTORNEY CHILDs, for T. p. Barnum +,
says that the terms of agreement on which
Barnum withdrew his 100000 suit
against the Grand Trunk hallway of Can
ada for the death of Jumlo were private;
but it was learned from another source
that the company have agreed TO pay $780,
600 and haul eighty circus cars over its
route free the coming season.
JAMES H. MART, chief clerk in the first
assistant postmaster generals Office, is
dead. He had been continually in Office
for upwards of fifty years and was the
only civil pensioner of the government
made so on the occasiol of the fiftieth an
nivers ~ of his service.
A FEW days ago the United States secret
service officers arrested two women named
Mrs. Anna Kelly and Miss Ellen Barret,
who have been engaged in counterfeiting
silver coins. The prisoners were caught
at work with complete set of tools.
They are sisters and one is the wife of the
notorious George Kelly, the counterfeiter.
THE revolving details of the confession
of the negro, Albert Turner, on the case
of Jennie Bowman, the girl who was SO
brutal!y assaulted by negro burglars at
Louisville, KY, has aroused indig in
that community to degree unparalleled
in it's history. Turner's confession impli-
Gates another negro named Neil Patterson,
who has been arrested on suspicion. and, !,
in order TO escape the mob been taken to
Frankfort, where the prisoners will both
be confined temporarily in the peniten-
tinry.
The Toronto Globe, referring to Sails
bury's proposit on for the settlement of
the fishery question says: "lt consists Of
giving everything to the I'm ted States and
in disgra,ing and dish on oring the people
of this country q, they could never be dis
graced and dlshonor,d by manfully de-
Tending their ri ,hts, even to the point of
war. The offer Of tie Tory Premier is
cowardly, desp cable and treacherous TO
Canada, and should it be ratified by the
Dominion Parliament, it will never again
be possible to assert the right TO exclude
American fishermen frcm our in hore
waters"
In row in a saloon at Tiflin, Ohio,
among some pipemen, William Birming-
ham, foreman of the ditchers at work for
the National Gas Company, severely pun
ished Paul Kuhn for the use of insult ng
language. A short time after Kuhn, with
Frank AIwine and two others, went to Bir-
mingham's boarding place anil called him
out. When he appeared Alwine struck
him upon the head with large stone and
he fell insenslble, his skull being crushed.
His assailants were arrested.
Col. MUM, of Chicago, of the counsel
for the defenda nts, proceeded before Judge
Tully with the reading of affdavits on the
motion for change Of venue in the county
corruptionists' cases,